... hundreds, and in 1890 when she was about eight years old she immigrated to America with her mother and father and eight sisters and brothers through Ellis Island. Yezierska"s daughter, Louise Levitas Henriksen writes in her biography, that Yezierska came from Plotsk and her family came through the earlier immigrant processing station called Castle Gardens ( ) . The critic Diane Levenberg, says that ... by Vivian Grnick "The slightly hallucinated cry of Yezierska's immigrant anguish did not mesh readily with Depression realism". Louise Erdrich is another wonderful woman writer. She is of...

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